Weird characters after upgrade

After I upgraded my site to version 3.1.4 I found a whole mess of weird characters. Many have been described elsewhere in this forum.

Someplace I read about checking/adding these lines to the wp-config.php file

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

That didn’t seem to fix anything. But then I checked what character set was designated in the actual mysql file. It’s
utf8_unicode_ci

When I changed the wp-config.php file to use that instead of the plain utf8 .. all those nasty goofy characters went away.

If you’re having those troubles, see if the DB_CHARSET in the config file matches your database.
Maybe it will work for you?

Kerch